Ararahih'urípih
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yáfus to wear a dress; to put on a dress

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7027 | revised Feb 11 2016

yáfus • V • to wear a dress; to put on a dress

Derivatives (5)
axyusyáfus "pine-nut dress"
furaxyáfus "red satin dress"
sirikayáfus "silk"
surukamyáfus "woman's underwear, slip, underskirt of a woman's dress"
yáfus "woman's dress"

Source: WB 1650, p.399

  • cheemyáachva vúra kúkuum yíth takunipyáfus. Every once in a while they put on another dress. [Reference: KM 32.4]
  • vaa takunipyáfus. They wore those things as dresses. [Reference: WB T65.23]

Sentence examples (3)

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  1. xas   pa-mú-kîit   u-peer   tâak   pa-mi-yáfus   ní-xraam  
    then   the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman   3s(>3)-say.to   give.me!   the-2sPOSS-wear.dress   1s(>3)-bet  
    And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.”
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  2. ta'ítam   u-'êeh-een   pa-mu-yáfus  
    so   3s(>3)-give-ANT   the-3sPOSS-wear.dress  
    Then she gave him her dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  3. p-eempurávaas   pa-t-u-vuhvúhi-naa   púyava   pa-ta-kun-íkviipvarayva   púyava   tá   kun-síchakvutva   vaa   tá   kun-ip-yáfus  
    the-flour.sack   NOMZ-PERF-3s(>3)-do.jump.dance-PL   you.see   NOMZ-PERF-3pl(>3s)-carry.blades.in.deerskin.dance   you.see   PERF   3pl(>3s)-put.on.a.belt   so   PERF   3pl(>3s)-ITER-wear.dress  
    And when they did the deerskin dance, when they carried the obsidian blades, they wore the flour bags around their waist, they put them on that way, as dresses.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text